FOR WATER AGENCIES AND UTILITIES
Bring regenerative design to your city.
Engage your community. With typically 70%-95% of stormwater originating from private properties in urban and periurban areas, engaging citizens is critical. With Follow The Drop at their fingertips, everyone can actively participate in reducing their stormwater footprint, improving water quality and helping regenerate the water cycle.
Collect local data. Identify baseline stormwater runoff volumes and measure real-time volumes of stormwater captured in distributed green infrastructure systems. Track their operations and maintenance and receive data analytics for reporting and communications to the public.
Plan. Streamline the administration and planning efforts of stormwater programs. Integrate data between Follow the Drop and asset management and billing software.
A digital, integrated, cloud-based solution: No more paper, no more juggling between GIS tools. Follow the Drop is an off-the-shelf, all-in-one tool to help administer GSI programs. We gather rainwater data from NOAA and other reliable sources and combine them with the field data entered to provide water agencies with valuable stormwater metrics for reporting, program management, and communication.
Streamlined operations and asset management: Easily track project history, ongoing maintenance needs and engage with residents.
Custom branding: Customize the application to match your local stormwater or water conservation program branding.
Compliance: Easily collect the data required for regulatory reporting, both in the dashboard interface and as a csv output.
Real-time data: In administrator view easily track in real-time the number and types of projects, their locations, status and volumes of stormwater being captured.
What you get
Follow the Drop supports the planning and accelerates the adoption of green stormwater infrastructure practices in communities. The multiple benefits of GSI can support partnership development between city departments, utilities, and community efforts. Some of the multi-benefits GSI can provide include:
Improve water quality
Reduce flooding
Water security
Reduce heat island effect -integrate into a city’s urban forestry program
Beautification
Absorb CO2
Restore natural hydrology
What are the benefits of Green Stormwater Infrastructure?
Assess the baseline: Remotely or in the field use Follow the Drop to collect data on current stormwater runoff volumes and potential for stormwater capture from individual properties to establish a baseline and prioritize projects.
Identify green stormwater infrastructure solutions: Utilize the professional design standards in Follow the Drop to help size GSI practices such as bioretention, permeable pavement, bioswales, and rainwater catchment. Tailor your options to address the unique local challenges.
Scope, size and compare: Assess the feasibility and size of each solution. Compare opportunities and identify potential rainwater capture values based on the size and type system entered. Select the solution that offers the most value and aligns with your goals.
Document, track, and communicate: Develop a detailed project plan outlining timelines, resource allocation, and milestones. Once installed use Follow the Drop to track the project over its lifetime and collect real-time stormwater and water quality metrics. Use the data to regularly update stakeholders and the community to create transparency and engagement.
Follow the Drop for green infrastructure planning & tracking
CASE STUDY: City and County of Honolulu
118 million gallons is the baseline average annual stormwater runoff volume
118 MG
Number of properties assessed
1,832
100 MG
100 million gallons of potential rainwater captured per year
The City and County of Honolulu launched an innovative stormwater management pilot program to engage the community and collect data for future initiatives.
The objectives of the pilot program were threefold:
Test the platform's effectiveness in community engagement;
Collect valuable data that would bolster future incentive programs;
Align this initiative with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply's Water Conservation program.
Taking a holistic "One-Water" perspective, the project centered its efforts in three key watersheds in East Honolulu. East Honolulu was chosen because it consistently faced challenges related to flooding, pollution, and decreasing groundwater reserves.
By incorporating the local rainfall data the software calculated the baseline stormwater runoff conditions and the potential impact for reduction should optimally sized GSI get installed on individual private properties. In a partnership with a local nonprofit rainwater assessments were conducted with property owners using the app.
Data collected through Follow the Drop is proving to be beneficial in shaping the development of future incentive programs, identifying "shovel-ready" projects, and assessing its viability as an operational and maintenance tool for tracking green stormwater infrastructure assets. Additionally, it serves as a robust data management platform to facilitate the administration of these vital programs.